Category: United States

  • Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave Lushena Books 2014-02-20 (Originally published in 1849) 104 pages 0.2 x 4.9 x 7.9 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 1631820060 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1631820069 Henry Bibb (1815-1854)   Read the entire narrative, courtesy of Documenting the American South (DocSouth) here.

  • Black Enough/White Enough: The Obama Dilema Third World Press February 2009 199 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0883783092 Rickey Hendon Foreword by: Hermene D. Hartman Barack is caught between two worlds and struggles for acceptance by either side-Black enough? White enough? It’s a fine line that he must walk, writes Illinois state Senator Rickey Hendon, in Black…

  • The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control Verso Books November 2012 (Originally published in August, 1997) 372 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781844677696 Ebook ISBN: 9781844678433 Theodore W. Allen (1919-2005) Introduction and notes by Jeffrey B. Perry Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America. When the first Africans arrived…

  • Kansas City Artist Shane Evans, Co-Author Taye Diggs Demystify Mixed-Race Families In New Book KCUR 89.3 Kansas City, Missouri 2015-12-04 Laura Ziegler, Special Correspondent Shane Evans at KCUR studios to talk about illustrating new children’s book (Laura Ziegler KCUR) Kansas City artist Shane Evans was raised by a mother and father whose racial and cultural…

  • Parents (of multiracial kids) Just Don’t Understand AsAmNews 2015-12-03 Alice Wong Talking about race is complicated enough but how do parents of multiracial Asian American children talk to their kids about race and racial identity? What are the experiences of multiracial Asian American children? What’s missing in the media representations of multiracial kids? Writer, scholar…

  • Leaving to learn Columbia Daily Spectator 2015-12-02 Claire Liebmann Courtesy of Karl Jacoby Several years ago while browsing newspaper clippings online, Karl Jacoby, a history professor at Columbia, came across the story of William Ellis—a Texan slave who built a million dollar fortune while posing as a Mexican millionaire in New York, essentially hacking the…

  • Love in the face of racism: Being an interracial family Cable News Network (CNN) 2015-11-25 Jareen Imam, Social Discovery Producer CNN)—When Karen Garsee picked her 5-year-old daughter up from kindergarten in September, she wasn’t prepared for what Kaylee had to say. The kids at school wouldn’t play with me today. Why? Because I’m brown. Those…

  • National Affairs: Who Would Be King Time 1923-10-08 Word came to the U. S. that William Henry Ellis, who preferred to style himself Guillermo Enrique Eliseo, died in Mexico City. Mr. Ellis was one of the most remarkable men who ever acted as agent for the State Department. He was known chiefly for the famous…

  • Keep It Simple at TEDxIndianapolis The Indianapolis Star 2015-10-21 Leslie Bailey “When asked how he created his masterpiece, Michelangelo said, ‘It was easy. You just chip away that which does not look like David.’ What if our lives are our masterpiece? What if we chipped away all that was unnecessary, all the clutter and the…

  • Intersection Episode 10: Being Melissa Harris-Perry Is a Full-Time Job The New Republic Intersection with Jamil Smith 2015-12-01 Jamil Smith, Senior Editor and Host Professor, feminist, TV host, activist, mom, rabid hip-hop fan. Melissa Harris-Perry works seven days a week balancing all her identities, and she isn’t stopping anytime soon. Besides hosting her eponymous MSNBC…